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**Bill in Co.** · May 5th 08, 08:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion

wrote:
On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:54:57 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote:

ALL registry cleaners are VERY dangerous to your system, and will
actually
FIX a problem, even just "slowness", approximately NEVER.

I run Regseeker regularly and never had a problem. I have never seen
it fix any problems, but it does remove a lot of useless junk.
Without such programs, it seems to me that the registry would get so
huge that it would be crash prone. For example, lets say I created a
folder called "JUNK". I used that folder to temporarily place a bunch
of things I find on my hard drive, which are everything from text, or
Wordpad notes, to downloaded pictures, file downloads, etc. Then I
begin sorting out the junk, and use winzip to open many of the
downloads, and some photo viewer to look at the pictures, and Wordpad
to look at many of the notes. ALL of these things are documented in
the registry. Wordpad, Winzip, Photo Viewers all store "recently
opened files".

Eventually I get everything put on a CD or other media and I delete
the "Junk" folder. Then I remove several of the demo downloads I tried.

Running Regseeker finds multiple references to that JUNK folder,
references to Winzip, Wordpad, etc opening files, and many things
relating to the demos I tried and removed. All of that is removed
from the registry, thus keeping it small and clean. Of course I
always read what is being cleaned (removed). 99.9% of the time it's
just this old stuff that is not needed or wanted.

So how can you say that Reg cleaners are dangerous and should not be
used.

Because he (and a few others here) know what they're talking about.

I do agree to be careful what is being removed, but without
them the registry will become a pile of useless garbage.

Nonsense.